Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider

Location: Henry Schein, Concord, ON
Time: 9.00am – 1:30pm
Price: $70 + HST
CE: 4

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will teach the foundation of saving lives after cardiac arrest, with high-quality CPR in a wide variety of settings for infants, children and adults. This course is offered to healthcare professionals and trained first responders. It will provide training on both single-rescuer and team basic life support skills that can be used in pre-hospital and in-facility settings.

BLS offers:

• Improving patient outcome based on recent evidence-based practice
• Simulations and animations, with the incorporation of realistic scenarios

BLS Course Objectives:

• Describe the importance of high-quality CPR and its impact on survival
• Describe all the steps of the Chain of Survival
• Apply the BLS concepts of the Chain of Survival
• Recognize the signs of someone needing CPR
• Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
• Describe the importance of early use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
• Demonstrate the appropriate use of an AED
• Provide effective ventilations by using a barrier device
• Perform high-quality CPR for a child
• Perform high-quality CPR for an infant
• Describe the importance of teams in multi-rescuer resuscitation
• Perform as an effective team member during multi-rescuer CPR
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an adult or child
• Describe the technique for relief of foreign-body airway obstruction for an infant

COST: $70+ HST